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Time to install the glass, windshield and rear quarter window. Should be quite easy:
• No welding in the window frame
• Same windshield
• Best available new rubber
• Trim pieces sat almost perfectly before

Got some advice from Johnny Woods, before installing, lay the trim pieces on windshield, see fit. Didn’t fit very well in corners. Spent a few hours bending them with my hands, rubber hammer, wooden block etc. Got a great fit I thought.

Yesterday the window guy got here. Super guy, meticulous and interested in doing a good job. BTW, if you remember my experience with another local window firm and my Longchamp, I ended up having to repaint the hood, roof and rear decklid at their expense, because they put their tools on my newly painted car. This guy, who’s company translates to “The Window Man” is a lot better.

We put the rubber on the windshield, tried to install trim. Didn’t fit that well in corners. Took it out, bent some more, one corner up, one corner down, and now it fit perfectly all around the windshield. Time to install.

Still, after all that effort, when the windshield was installed, the lower corners didn’t go in the rubber as they should. Hhmm. Then we pushed, later hammered gently, all the time scared the windshield would say: “Enough”, and crack. It got better but not good.

Frustrated, I said, I almost want to put a clamp on it and push it down. He said, let’s try it. So we ended up putting super window glue down there, and a clamp on all night, both sides. And then we had to continue today.